Table 1. Demographic characteristics of patients and tumors.
Total HCC patients | Suppressed pSTAT1 group |
control group | |
---|---|---|---|
Total number | 29 | 7 | 22 |
Male/Female | 21 / 8 | 6 / 1 | 15 / 7 |
Age (year) | 61.6 ± 10.3 | 66.5 ± 8.0 | 60.2 ± 10.8 |
Etiology (HBV/HCV) | 11 / 15 | 3 / 5 | 8 / 10 |
Non-tumor lesion
(normal/CH/LC) |
2 /18 /9 | 0 / 6 / 1 | 2 /12 / 8 |
ALT | 44.0 ± 30.0 | 41.1 ± 21.0 | 46.2 ± 33.2 |
Platelets | 15.7 ± 5.8 | 14.7 ± 1.9 | 16.0 ± 5.6 |
Child (A/B/C) | 20 / 3 / 6 | 7 / 0 / 0 | 13 / 3 / 6 |
Stage (l / ll / lll / IV) | 2 / 16 / 10 / 1 | 0 / 6 / 1 / 0 | 2 / 10 / 9 / 1 |
HCC recurrence
(within/over 2 years) |
15 / 14 | 7 / 0 *1 | 8 / 14 |
Tumor size (cm) | 4.8 ± 2.6 | 5.5 ± 2.4 | 4.6 ± 2.3 |
Macroscopic classification
(simple/surr/multi/invasive) |
6 / 13 / 6 / 4 | 1 / 5 / 0 / 1 | 5 / 8 / 6 / 3 |
Capsule formation (+/−) | 20 / 9 | 7 / 0 *2 | 13 / 9 |
Histology(moderate/poor) | 10 / 19 | 3 / 4 | 7 / 15 |
AFP | 1337 ± 4402 | 766 ± 579 | 1637 ± 5161 |
Vessel invasion (Vv +/−) | 1 /28 | 0 / 7 | 1 / 21 |
Vessel invasion (Vp +/−) | 9 / 20 | 5 / 2 *3 | 4 / 18 |